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* Lent is a time for deprivation — at least until religion interferes with your drinking. (Okra)

* The ghosts that haunt Singapore can be satisfied with only one thing: food, and lots of it. (Atlantic Life)

* The Mediterranean diet ain’t what it seems: “Mediterranean people have some of the worst diets in Europe, and the Greeks are the fattest: about 75 percent of the Greek population is overweight.” (NY Times)

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